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THE INVINCIBLE GOSPEL 

By Geo. F. Penticost, D. D. 

Address Before the World's Parliament of 
Religion, Chicago, Sept. 24, 1893. 

I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ. — Romans 1 : 16. 

Christianity is a fighting religion. Christ 
came not to send peace but a sword — not the 
sword of a Mahomet, but the sword of the 
Spirit, which is the word of God. Chris- 
tianity recognizes the absolute freedom of 
the human will and conscience. It con- 
demns all violence in its conflict with other 
religions, appealing only to the inteligence, 
the conscience and the heart of men, by the 
word of God with the Holy Ghost sent down 
from Heaven. It is not intollerant of other 
religions, except as light is intollerant of 
darkness, but will in no case compromise 



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with error or enter into fellowship with any- 
religious system or philosophy whatever 
which is not builded on the u Rock of Ages." 
It is more aggressive than any other religion 
and purposes to carry the Holy War to the 
gate of every temple of fane in the world. 
Whatever of truth there may be in the re- 
ligions and philosophy of the world and it 
will take up and absorb. It adapts itself to 
the circumstances of the people w 7 hom it 
converts and develops its forms in the sur- 
roundings where it wins its conquests. 
Before it the false and perverted system 
which it meets must go down utterly. 

Paul the great apostle of Christ appreci- 
ated this aggressive spirit of the gospel and 
went forth to his work of conquest with a 
heart full of loyalty to God and Christ and 
a longing love for the people, He went forth 
into the Greek and Roman classical world, 
not only to preach the gospel but to chal- 
lenge the claims of any and all religions with 
which the gospel came in conflict. To the 
Romans he wrote : " I am not ashamed of 



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the gospel of Christ for it is the power of 
God with Salvation to every one that be- 
lieve th." 

Home was the center of the world's polit- 
ical power, as it was the chief seat of the 
world's religions and philosophies. There 
was the throne of the Caesars ; there the 
Pantheon with its many gods ; and there the 
famous schools of philosophy. There also a 
small Christian church (composed of a few 
believing Jews, a larger number of poor 
freedmen and slaves, with here and there an 
" honorable" person, and some servants of 
Csesar's household) the fame of whose faith 
had been spread abroad until Paul, whose 
habit it was never to build on another man's 
foundation, came to desire greatly to visit 
that church and himself gain some fruit also 
in the world's capital. He had often in- 
tended to visit Rome, but had been hindered 
hitherto. So for the present, he takes up 
his pen and writes these Christians of his de- 
sires and purpose, and anticipates his work 
in person, by writing the most massive ex- 



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position of the gospel which the Christian 
church possesses. This epistle has been 
rightly designated the Magna Charta of the 
Christian faith. It is certainly a wonderful 
unfolding of the doctrines of Christ. In the 
epistle alone may be found every funda- 
mental fact and doctrine of our faith and 
practice. 

In visiting Rome, the world's seat of 
empire, religion and learning, what hope 
had Paul of gaining a hearing for the gos- 
pel of the crucified One. What hope was 
there that he could successfully compete 
with the triple power of Rome, and win men 
and women to Christ by means of "the fool- 
ishness of preaching" "Christ and Him cru- 
cified." How could he hope to win even the 
common people from the age-old religions of 
the heathen world, which still held the 
masses in the shackles of superstition; how 
overcome the aristocratic influence of the 
philosophers, who still dominated the cul- 
tured portion of the Empire ; and especially, 
how could he hope to exalt into supreme 



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power the gospel of Christ, under the very 
throne from whose authority went forth the 
sentence of death against Christ Himself, at 
the same time branding Him as an Imposter 
and traitor. All these things were no doubt 
in Paul's mind, and gave color to this ringing 
declaration: "I am not ashamed of the gos- 
pel of Christ for IT is the PO WER of GOB 
unto SALVATION, to every one that be- 
lieveth." His was a sublime faith and cour- 
age, in what seemed to the world a mad- 
man's dream. The reasons for his faith are 
crowded into this single sentence, in which 
he contrasts God's power with the powers 
of the world. Here is the benevolence of 
the gospel which brings salvation, where 
hitherto has reigned only delusion, tyranny 
and death. Here is a universal good offered 
in competition with superstition, and those 
philosophies which are kept exclusively for 
men of wealth, culture and leisure, and 
which at best were cold, speculative theo- 
ries. 

In respect of the conquest of the world, or 



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what remains of it, among those nations to 
which the preachers of the gospel have gone 
forth, we occupy much the same stand- 
point as did Paul. We are not ashamed 
of the gospel of Christ, and are ready to 
preach it and vindicate it in the face of all 
the world by every reason which appeals 
alike to the intellect, heart and the con- 
science of man. The powers of the world 
do not daunt us ; not are w 7 e ashamed to dis- 
pute with the wise men and scribes of the 
schools ; nor to contend with the darkest 
superstition which enthralls the minds of the 
millions yet unenlightened by the cross of 
Christ. In this regard it is a great privilege 
for us Christians to meet face to face in this 
Parliament the representatives of many an- 
cient religions and equally ancient philoso- 
phies ; to give to them a reason for the faith, 
and hope that is in us, and show them the 
grounds upon which we base our contention 
that Christianity is the only possible uni- 
versal religion, as it is certainly the only 
complete and God-given revelation. 



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When Paul declared : U I am not ashamed 
of the gospel of Christ," he meant to say, 
u There is nothing in the gospel of Christ 
which causes me to blush or drop my eyes 
in the face of any man, or of all men. I do 
not have to apologize for believing the gos- 
pel or preaching it, as if there were anything 
in it or about it that can not bear the closest 
scrutiny from every point of view ; whether 
in respect of its historical basis of fact, its Di- 
vine rationality, its doctrinal system, or its 
power to give salvation to man. The more 
light that can be brought to bear upon 
the gospel the less I am ashamed of it. 
The more closely it is examined in all its 
parts the better pleased will I be. I am 
ready to come to Rome and in the presence 
of politicians, philosophers and priests of 
superstition, open up and defend the gospel 
of Christ." u Feeble and foolish as the 
wise men of this world may deem the gos- 
pel of Christ, great as are the forces, politi- 
cal, religious and philosophical, arrayed 
against it, I am not fearful of the final out- 



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come. of the conflict of Christianity, with the 
religions and philosophies of paganism. The 
gospel of Christ is founded upon a rock and 
made one with its foundation, so that not 
even the gates of death shall prevail against 
it. The power of the gospel is the power of 
God, and so is greater than all possible oppos- 
ing powers. All power has been given into 
the hands of Jesus Christ for the propagation 
and defence of His Gospel, and to give eter- 
nal life to as many as believe on Him. 
After nineteen centuries we declare the same 
things and challenge all religions on these 
points : 

1. We are not ashamed of its antiquity. 
Some of the religions of the Roman Empire 
boasted great antiquity. Indeed, they based 
their religions on myths whose fancied exist- 
ence antedated history. To antidate history 
is an easy way to secure antiquity for any 
faith. There are those among us to-day who 
will tell you that, as compared with their 
faiths, Christianity is but an infant of days. 
The Brahmin will tell us that for three thous- 



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and years his Aryan ancestors have wor- 
shipped the Indian Triad on the banks of the 
Ganges and the Jumna; that the holy city 
of Barnaas was the flourishing seat of their 
faith before Abraam left Ur of the Chaldees, 
and that it has had an unbroken municipal 
continuity ever since. Peculiarly destitute 
of the historical sense, millions of years are 
as easily managed by the Orientals as de- 
cades are with us. Claiming eternity for 
their Badas and their Puranic heroes, they 
easily antedate all other faiths by this 
convenient method. In our prosaic century, 
however, these magnificent claims for an 
antiquity which antedates historic time by 
millions of years, go for nothing. On the 
other hand Christianity is peculiarly but- 
tressed by historic ennironment. 

We are often charged by Orientals with 
being the propagators of a modern faith, 
because by our own claims Jesus Christ 
did not appear until the comparatively 
recent time of two, millenniums ago. The 
Hindu faith was then already hoary with 



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age. But Christianity does not date from 
the birth of Christ. Christ incarnate, 
crucified and raised from the dead two 
thousand years ago was only the culmina- 
tion in time, and to our sense, of a revela- 
tion already ages old. Abraham believed 
in Christ and rejoiced to see His day ap- 
proaching. Christ was believed on in the 
wilderness when Moses was bringing the 
children of Israel out of Egypt ; for ' ' the 
gospel was preached to them as well as to 
us. 5 ' Nay, we need only to read the first 
simple records of our historic faith to iearn 
that as soon as man sinned and fell from 
communion with God in righteousness, and 
ere there was yet a man born into the world, 
Grod gave to the primeval pair the promise 
of Salvation through Christ. Since that 
day faith and hope in Christ — " the Seed of 
the woman" and promised Saviour of the 
world — like two mighty torches have been 
held aloft by prophets, priests and sages, 
flinging their bright, prophetic rays down 
the vista of the ages, until they were gath- 



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ered up and flung out again upon the 
whole world in fullness of glory by the com- 
ing of Him who is u the true Light that 
lighteth every man that cometh into the 
world." 

If this statement is deemed to be over- 
drawn we are prepared to compare the liter- 
ature of Christianity with that of all other 
religions (I mean its foundation literature) 
and trace it back step by step, checking it 
with the historical records of the past, writ- 
ten in books with the pen, graven in the 
rock and contained in monumental ruins 
either above ground or under the mounds of 
past ages. We claim no revelation given be- 
fore the age of our race, and put forth ho 
myth which antedates the history of earth 
and man. But as far back as history goes 
the records of our faith are found. Every 
turn of the archeologist's spade confirms the 
truth of them. In this respect we are not 
ashamed of the gospel. Its historical an- 
tiquity stands unrivalled among the relig- 
ions of the world. 



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2. We are not ashamed of its prophetic 
character. This point I have almost antici- 
pated by a remark just now made, yet it is 
worth while to devote a sentence more to it. 
Christ's appearance in this world nineteen 
centuries ago was not an unexpected event. 
For centuries, even from the beginning of 
man's spiritual need, He has been looked and 
longed for. Foretold in a hundred predic- 
tions, uttered by prophets of many ages, 
and of different types of mind and in many 
countries ; gazed upon in spiritual vision 
and sung forth by psalmists of many cent- 
uries, His coming was set in symbol and sacri- 
fice, in type and ceremony. An entire 
nation, whose wonderful people are still 
scattered amongst all nations, had its origin, 
development and marvelous history in the 
hope of His coming. Therefore, says Paul, 
' 'I am a servant of Jesus Christ, separated 
unto the gospel of God, which he had afore 
promised by His holy prophets in the Scrip- 
tures, concerning His Son, Jesus Christ, our 
Lord, which was made of the seed of David, 



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according to the flesh, and declared to be 
the Son of God, with power according to the 
Spirit of holiness by the resurrection from 
the dead." Every detail of His advent was 
predicted ages before He came ; every cir- 
cumstance and characteristic of His ministry 
was the subject of prophecy ; the manner 
and attending details of His death were 
clearly set forth ; His resurrection predicted 
and the spread of His gospel among all na- 
tions foretold. In this respect the gospel 
stands without a rival among the faiths of 
the world. The heroes of the world's re- 
ligions have been either myths or unlooked 
for men springing up from among their fel- 
lows, for whom their disciples neither looked 
nor were prepared. Who prophesied the 
coming of Confucius, or Zoroaster, or Krish- 
na, or the Budah, or Mahomet ? Moreover, 
none of these heroes or leaders of men were 
in any sense Saviours. They were at best 
teachers, throwing their followers back upon 
themselves to work out their own salvation 
as best they might. Jesus stands on an en- 



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tirely different platform, declaring Himself 
to be the Way, tlie Truth and the Life. 
At His birth the angels heralded Him, 
"For unto you is born this day in the city 
of David a Saviour, which shall be unto all 
people/' Christianity is not belief in a doc- 
trine, nor primarily a life worked out, but 
it consists in a living union with a living 
Saviour. 

If we consult the bibles of the world's re- 
ligions we find an entire absence of prophetic 
sequence. There is indeed growth of a kind 
seen in the ancient scriptures of the Orient, 
but no living evolution from prophetic seed 
to fruitful branch of promises fulfilled. The 
great truths of Christianity alone, appeal to 
previous promises and prophesies. In every 
development of fact and doctrine of the 
Christian religion this the appeal is made, 
"according to the Scriptures,'' or, u as God 
had afore promised," or "thus it is written 
and thus it behooved/' Christianity was 
planted a promise in the soil of human na- 
ture so soon as man appeared on the earth, 



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and lias grown steadily without check or de- 
viation until this mightv Tree of Life has 
spread its branches throughout the world 
and lifted them high up against the sky. 
The naturalists tell us that the topmost leaf 
on the outermost branch of any tree may be 
traced backward and downward by a living 
libre until it finds its beginning in the roots 
deep under ground. So it is with the facts 
and doctrines of Christianity. The leaves 
of the Tree of Life in the Paradise of God, 
as seen in the Kevelation, send their living 
threads downward through the writings of 
apostles and prophets until we unearth them 
in the Garden of Eden. 

3. We are not ashamed of the Divine 
Author of Christianity. Whether w^e con- 
sider the character of Jehovah- God of the 
Old Testament, or of the Jesus-God of the 
New Testament, there is nothing in either 
that suffers by the highest ethical criticism 
which may be applied to them. In the Old 
Testament from the beginning God proclaims 
Himself in Love, Holiness, Righteousness, 



20 Gbe invincible Gospel. 

Truth and Mercy. One passage out of hun- 
dreds will suffice for an illustration of this. 
When God gave to Moses the tables of stone 
on which He had written His law, he " de- 
scended in a cloud and stood with him there 
and proclaimed the name," that is the char- 
acter of God. "And the Lord passed be- 
fore him and proclaimed, The Lord, the Lord 
God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering 
and abundant in goodness and truth, keep- 
ing mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity 
and transgression and sin, and that will by 
no means clear the guilty." (Ex. 34: 5-7.) 
We s might well challenge comparison with 
this passage, in which God reveals His char- 
acter, from the pages of any religious writ- 
ing or philosophical speculation extant. 
As concerning Jesus — the incarnate God 
of the New Testament — "holy, harmless, 
undefiled and separate from sinners," 
''touched with every feeling of our in- 
firmity," and " tempted in all points like 
as we, yet without sin " ; the ' ' Friend of pub- 
licans and sinners "; coining into the world 



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to seek and save that which was lost, to call 
sinners rather than righteous men to repent- 
ance, He stands without a peer among men 
or gods. The moral glory of His character 
lifts him head and shoulders above that of 
all men or beings, ideal or real, with which 
we are acquainted. Nineteen centuries of 
study has only served to increase His glory 
and confirm and deepen His divine-human 
influence over men. Even His worst enemies 
are among the first to lay at His feet a tribute 
to His greatness, goodness and glory. He is, 
indeed, in the language of a distinguished 
Hindu gentleman and scholar, uttered in my 
presence in the old city of Poona, and. 
before an audience of a thousand of his 
Brahminical fellows : "The Peerless Christy 
To compare Him with any of the gods wor- 
shipped by the Hindus is to mock them and 
insult Him ; to compare Him with any of the 
great religious teachers and philosophers of 
the world, who, while not claiming for them- 
selves divinity, are put forth by their follow- 
ers as the highest and brightest examples of 



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human wisdom and character, is only to daz- 
zle their wisdom, dwarf their characters and 
reveal their thousand, and sometimes name- 
less faults, in the resplendent brightness of 
His glory. 

Before Jesus came into the world, it was 
the task of religious men to create an ideal 
character upon which to model humad life. 
No such ideal character ever satisfied the 
demands of the moral consciousness of the 
ancient world. Since Jesus came, no further 
attempt has been made to idealize human 
character, for One is here whose moral glory 
shines and glows upon the pages of the Gos- 
pels with a brightness and perfection which 
leaves room only for admiration, wonder 
and worship. It is this moral glory of char 
acter that has compelled the homage of those 
even who blindly reject His supernatural ori- 
gin; compelling, e. g., the flippant Strauss to 
say: " Jesus represents within the sphere of 
religion the culminating point, beyond which 
posterity can never go, yea, which it cannot 
even equal ; He remains the highest model 



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of religion within the reach of our thought, 
and no perfect piety is possible without His 
presence in the heart " ; and Renan to say : 
4 'Whatever may be the surprises of the 
future, Jesus will never be surpassed. His 
worship will grow young without ceasing. 
All ages will proclaim that among the sons 
of men, there is none born greater than 
Jesus." Goethe, the father of the modern 
school of high culture, in one of his last 
utterances, expresses the conviction, u that 
the human mind, no matter how much it 
may advance in intellectual culture and the 
extent and depth of the knowledge of na- 
ture, will never transcend the high moral 
culture of Christianity as it shines and glows 
in the canonical gospels." Napoleon the 
Great declared : " I search in vain in history 
to find one equal to Jesus Christ, or anything 
which can approach the Gospel. Neither 
history, nor humanity, nor the ages, nor 
nature afford me anything with which I am 
able to compare or by which to explain it." 
These are not the testimonies of devoted, 



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but prejudiced, disciples of Jesus and Chris- 
tianity, They are the voluntary testimonies 
of men who could do naught else, though 
they rejected Him as their personal Saviour. 
Why is it that " rationalism to-day cannot 
look at Him closely except on its knees" I 
Simply because of the infinite perfection atid 
moral glory of His character, which stamps 
itself upon all His teaching, and without 
which the demands which He makes upon 
His disciples to follow Him and to believe 
unhesitatingly all His words, would have 
long ago been repudiated by the world. 
There is no such discrepancy, e. #., between 
the teachings of Jesus and the character of 
Jesus as is glaringly manifest between the 
teachings of Krishna in the 'Geta and the 
character of Krishna as set forth in the 
Puranas. Nineteen centuries have passed 
and Jesus is still the peerless man. "The 
chief among ten thousand, the one alto- 
gether lovely." 

4. We are not ashamed of the eth ieaJ basis 
of the gospel. Without denying that there 



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is to be found ethical teaching of great 
beauty in the non-Christian religions of the 
world, it is still true that these religions lay 
their stress upon their cults rather than upon 
moral culture. Among most of them there is 
a striking divorce between religion and mor- 
als ; if indeed these are ever found joined to- 
gether. But in the gospel we find that the 
final test of Christianity is in its power to re- 
generate and sanctify man. The moral basis 
of Christianity may be found throughout the 
Scriptures, but for the sake of brevity we take 
only two examples. The first is that code of 
righteousness revealed by God to Moses and 
which we commonly speak of as the Ten 
Commandments. It is strikingly significant 
that this wonderful moral law was commu- 
nicated at a period when ethical truth among 
the then existing nations was at its lowest 
point, and the morals of the people lower 
than the teaching. Midway between* Egypt 
(luxurious and dissolute) and the nations 
dwelling in and about Canaan, whose moral 
vileness was so great that the very land was 



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ready to vomit them out, God halted the 
Israelites, to declare to them not only His 
character, but to lay down for 'them a law of 
righteousness in the keeping of which there 
was life, and in the disregard of which there 
was death. With the exception of the sin- 
gle commandment in respect of the Sabbath 
day, consecrated to the worship of God, 
every one of them bears directly on personal 
morality and righteousness. We need not 
stop to discuss the unmeasured superiority 
of these ten words, to any code of morals 
which up to that time the world had ever 
known. Nor need we do more than remark, 
that, after nearly four thousand years, tested 
by every intervening age and by the most 
rigid criticism which the advancing moral 
sense of man (largely developed by the power 
of this very law) these words still stand un- 
rivalled. Who has ever proposed an amend, 
ment either by addition or elimination to 
this matchless moral code? Where did 
Moses get these words? Not from Egypt 
where he was educated and trained ; not 



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from the desert where for forty years he 
lived ; not from the land toward which he 
was journeying. It would require a stretch 
of the imagination beyond anything we know 
to suggest that lie himself was the author of 
them. They were written by the finger of 
God and given to him. But let them come 
from where they may have come, our point 
is that in contending for the faith of the gos- 
pel we are not ashamed of the ancient ethic 
basis of our religion. 

Passing from the Old Testament to the 
New, we have only to call attention to the 
Sermon on the Mount. These words of 
Jesus, spoken to His disciples, are but the 
transfiguration of the ten words given by 
God to Moses. Jesus declared that He 
came not to relax or destroy the moral teach- 
ings either of the law or the prophets, but 
to fulfill them. Therefore, in speaking to 
His disciples He first ratified the ancient 
code, and then expounded it. In the law 
we see the trunk of the tree, but in the gos- 
pel the Tree of Life from its base upward is 



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unfolded ; the Sermon of the Mount digged 
up its very roots, and exposed the hidden 
life to view. The law deals with actions, the 
Sermon on the Mount with motives. The 
law has to do with conduct, the Sermon on 
the Mount with character. We may be per- 
mitted to make the same remark of these 
wonderful words of Jesus that we did re- 
specting the Ten Commandments : Who has 
ever assumed to revise the Sermon on the 
Mount in order to eliminate that which is 
not good or add to it that which it lacked, 
in the way of moral teaching \ And may we 
not ask where can there be found in religious 
literature a code of morals with which this 
Sermon on the Mount may be compared \ 

It has been urged against this claim that 
Jesus was not altogether an original teacher ; 
that some, if not many, of His most beauti- 
ful saying are to be found in the writings of 
more ancient teachers. Xotably, it has been 
declared that the beautiful maxim of Christ, 
known as the Golden Rule, was borrowed 
by Jesus from His religious predecessors. 



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But even a casual comparison of the sayings 
of Christ with those of other teachers will 
show a vast difference. Instance that of 
Hiliel: "Do not to thy neighbor what is 
hateful to thyself"; or that of Isocrates: 
" What stirs the anger when done to thee by 
others that do not to others " ; or that of Aris- 
totle, when asked how we should bear our- 
selves toward our friends: "As we would 
desire that they should bear themselves to- 
ward us"; or that of Confucius: "What 
you do not want done to yourself do not do 
to others " ; or a maxim mentioned by 
Senega: "Expect from others what you do 
to others." . These are all fore gleams from 
the sun which shines in its fullness in the 
perfect law of Christ, "All things, whatso- 
ever ye would that men should do unto you, 
do ye even so to them." This is positive 
and exhaustive. All the others are partial 
and negative, if not merely prudential, not 
to say selfish. They were gleams from the 
source of truth, shot into the minds and 
hearts of the great and good men who gave 



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them utterance. But the truth in the lips 
of Jesus ' ' receives a different setting, and a 
more heavenly light is in it. An uncut dia- 
mond in a dark and dimly lighted room is 
not the same thing as a diamond cut into 
facets and held in the track of a sunbeam." 
Truths partially uttered of old, when taken 
up and stated by our Saviour, are lifted out 
of the dark and negative surroundings into 
their positive and unselfish fulness. These 
truths lifted up in the track of His life throb 
with light and power. "They cover the 
whole breadth of our conscience in their 
man ward direction." They are energized 
and filled with the fullness of His own life, 
henceforth going forward, unfettered to 
their mission of regenerating the world of 
fallen humanity. How is it that the truths, 
or partial truths, spoken by the ancients, 
dead and powerless for ages, were raised to 
life and given to the world with all the 
freshness and power of original revelations 
from God in the lips of Jesus ? How is it 
that, while hardly anybody beside the 



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scholar knows of these sayings of the an- 
cients, every child knows and feels the 
power of the Golden Rule of Jesus? How 
is it that in the Orient today it is the Rule 
of Jesus and not those of their own Sages 
that is quoted by the Orientals themselves % 
Is it not because the one class of maxims con- 
tains but partial or half truths, while the 
sayings of Jesus are the truth, and that 
Jesus has embodied and illustrated them in 
His own life ? 

But beyond the ethical teachings of Christ, 
which are without question far in advance 
of all statements which the world had ever 
had, and which stand to-day upon the out- 
ermost confines of possible statement, Jesus 
has brought to us a revelation of God Him- 
self ; not only as to the fact of His being, 
but as to His nature and the love and grace 
of His purpose toward man. Moreover He 
has shown us what we are ourselves; from 
whence we are fallen and unto what the pur- 
pose of God designs to lift us; together with 
all the necessary truth concerning human 



32 Gbe Snvunctble <3ospeL 

sin ; how it is to be put away and man set 
free from its intolerable guilt and bondage. 
Beside this again the misery of death is 
unfolded, while life and immortality are 
brought to light. All these questions have 
been matters of philosophical inquiry in the 
Orient, albeit the inquiry has confessedly 
been made in the dark. The latest utter- 
ances from scientific headquarters have de- 
clared that concerning them science is agnos- 
tic, without knowledge or the power to know. 
But Jesus handles these mighty questions 
with a master's hand, and floods them with 
clear light of mid-day revelation. 

5. We are not ashamed of its doctrines 
of salvation. The gospel is the power of 
God unto salvation. For our present pur- 
pose I may mention these following : Incar- 
nation, atonement, regeneration and resur- 
rection. It will be observed that these great 
doctrines are all inseparably associated with 
facts and life. In other words, Christianity 
is a history, a doctrine and a life. History 
back of its doctrine, doctrine growing out of 



XZbe invincible <306pel* 33 

its history, and life springing from these. 
The final test of the truth of the history and 
the doctrine is the life which results from 
them. Let me briefly summarize these : 

(1.) TJie Incarnation. 

By the Incarnation, roughly speaking, we 
mean that revelation which God made of 
Himself in Jesus Christ. It is variously 
stated in the Scriptures : "In the beginning 
was the Word, and the Word was with God, 
and the Word was God * * the Word was 
made flesh and dwelt among us (and we be- 
held His glory the glory as of the only be- 
gotten of the Father) full of grace and truth. 
No man hath seen God at any time — the 
only begotten Son which is in the bosom of 
the Father, He hath declared Him." (John 
1 : 1, 14, 18). In this declaration we see (a) 
this great truth : that God was in Christ seek- 
ing after man. All natural religions and 
philosophies show us man seeking after God 
if haply he may find Him. Here only do 
we see God seeking after man. u God is a 
Spirit, and He seeketh such to worship Him." 



34 Zbc invincible Gospel. 

Christ came into the world to seek and save 
that which was lost. Here indeed is a truth 
as startling as it is new, and one calculated 
to fill the heart of man with hope ; especially 
as this search after man is directed not alone 
toward the good, the better and the best of 
men, but toward sinners ; the bad, the worse, 
vea, even the worst of men; the ungodlv, the 
alienated, the estranged by wicked works, 
and those without strength. Xo wonder the 
gospel has touched the heart of this sinf ul 
world of ours and inspired it with a new and 
unquenchable hope and love as no other 
message ever has. {b) The Incarnation shows 
us not only God seeking after man, but iden- 
tifying Himself with man, not simply by act- 
ing in grace toward him, but by taking his 
very nature into union with Himself and by 
that union crowning him with glory and 
honor. Originally made lower than the 
angels, we see him in Christ, carried through 
every stage of existence and seated at last 
at the right hand of God. (Psalms viii Heb. 
ii.) (c) The Incarnation shows us what God's 



Zbc invincible <3ospeL 35 

thought was in man's creation. The broken 
image of God as seen in man is more than 
restored in Christ, who is the express image 
of the Father — the demonstration of God's 
character — and the very brightness of His 
glory. This not only in respect of the risen 
and glorified Christ, but of the man Christ 
Jesus as He lived and moved among men. 

What shall we say of that matchless life; 
its purity, its power and its divine benevo- 
lence. Do men scoff at the miracles of mercy 
wrought by Christ as being fables and in- 
ventions of the religious imagination ? Do 
they compare them with the fabulous and 
mythical stories of the gods and heroes of 
the Orient? When preaching to the edu- 
cated English-speaking gentlemen of India, 
I was often confronted with the statement 
that : "The gods and heroes of India wrought 
more and greater miracles than Jesus. They, 
too, fed the multitudes, opened the eyes of 
the blind and healed the sick. When I 
asked for the proof they had none to give 
except the Puranic stories. When they in 



36 TL'oe invincible Gospel. 

turn challenged me for proof, I simply said, 
"Gentlemen, look around you, even liere in 
India. The reported miracles of your gods 
and heroes stand only in stories, but each 
miracle of Christ was a living seed of power 
and love planted in human nature, and has 
sprung up and flourished, again bringing 
forth after its kind wherever the gospel is 
preached. Who cares for the lepers; who 
for the sick and the blind, the deaf and the 
maimed? Till Christ came to India these 
were left to die without care or help, but 
now every miracle of Christ is perpetuated 
in some hospital devoted to the care and cure 
of those who are in like case with the suf- 
ferers whom Christ healed." This is the 
difference between the fables of the ancients 
and the living wonders wrought by the liv- 
ing Christ. He, Himself, the embodiment 
of righteousness, love, pity, tenderness, 
gentleness, patience and all heavenly help- 
fulness, being the greatest miracle of all. 
Jesus among men as we see Him in the 
gospel is God's image restored to us, and 



Zbe Smuncible <3ospeL 37 

through Him acting in grace toward man. 
"Sir," said an old, gray-haired Brahmin to 
me one day, "I am an Hindu and always 
shall be, but I cannot help loving Him, the 
world never knew the like of Him before — 
when I think of Him I am ashamed of our 
gods." Truly, the Incarnation of Christ is 
the revelation of God; he that hath seen 
Him hath seen the Father. 

(2.) The Doctrine of Atonement. 

In this doctrine we see the solution of one 
of the oldest and most stressful questions of 
the human mind: How God may still u be 
just and yet the justifier of the ungodly"; 
How in forgiving transgression, iniquity and 
sin He establishes and magnifies the law. 
The limits of this paper do not allow me to 
discuss the teaching adequately, yet it is a 
doctrine which engages our profoundest 
thought and awakens our deepest gratitude. 
Paul states it thus: "God was in Christ rec- 
onciling the world to himself; not imputing 
their trespasses unto them; and hath com- 
mitted unto us the word of reconciliation. 



38 TZbe invincible <3ospel. 

Now then we are embassadors for Christ, as 
though God did beseech you by us, we pray 
you in Christ's stead be ye reconciled to 
God. For he hath made him (Jesus) who 
knew no sin, to be sin for us, that we might 
be made the righteousness of God in him." 
(II. Cor. v: 20-22.) This is the very heart 
of the gospel. Here is no doctrine of ven- 
geance exacted by a vindictive God, but the 
voluntary sacrifice which eternal love makes, 
to win and bring back to God a lost son, who 
has by sin come under just condemnation. 
Here is another statement of the same great 
doctrine by the same apostle: "But now the 
righteousness of God without law is mani- 
fested, being witnessed by the law and the 
prophets; even the righteousness of God, 
which is by faith of Jesus Christ, unto all 
and upon all them that believe; for there is 
no difference; for all have sinned and come 
short of the glory of God; being justified 
freely by his grace through the redemption 
that is in Christ Jesus; whom God hath set 
forth to be a propitiation through faith in 



Zfoe Swuncible <3ospeL 39 

his blood, to declare his righteousness for 
the remission of sins that are past, through 
the forbearance of God; that he might be 
just and yet the justifier of him that be- 
lieveth in Jesus." (Rom. iii: 21-26). On the* 
basis of this great sacrifice, God can and does 
declare the forgiveness of our sins, and jus- 
tifies us "from all things from which we 
could not be justified by the law of Moses" 
— that law standing alone. 

(3.) The doctrine of the New Birth. 

In connection with this righteousness for 
us by Jesus Christ there is a righteousness 
in us by regeneration, wrought by the Holy 
Ghost ; so that every saved man becomes a 
new creature in Christ. Thus, with right- 
eousness imputed freely by grace, and right- 
eousness imparted freely through faith by 
the Holy Spirit of God, man stands free from 
sin and its penalties and is panoplied with a 
new spiritual nature. He is enabled not 
only to conceive an ideal character of holi- 
ness, but to attain to such a character 
through the farther sanctification of the 



40 ^be 3-nvincibie Gospel. 

Spirit and belief of the truth. By the gos- 
pel, man, a wanderer and alien from God and 
an enemy by wicked works, becomes a son, 
filled with the mind of Christ, living and 
walking in fullest fellowship with God and 
with man. 

The religions and theosophies of the East 
and the West tell us of possible and almost 
endless rebirths into this world by means of 
which some final character may be attained, 
which in turn ends, either in the absorption 
of the individual soul into the Divine Spirit 
or becomes extinct with the extinction of all 
desire, and therefore of all consciousness. 
But Christ's doctrine of the new birth tells 
us of a new Divine life communicated from 
God — not an evolution from the old nature, 
but a new creation — which is in us, a new 
basis of character, and which enables us by 
fellowship with Christ to be transformed into 
His image and become the fit companions of 
God. We are not ashamed of the gospel of 
Christ. 



Zbe invincible Gospel, 41 

(4.) The Doctrine of Immortality. 

The resurrection of Jesus Christ from the 
dead has solved the problem of immortality, 
not by argument, but by demonstration, 
and has guaranteed to us a like immortality, 
not of the soul only, but of the whole man — 
spirit, soul and body ; for even these bodies 
of ours, now humiliated and dishonored by 
sin, and too often yielding themselves instru- 
ments of unrighteousness unto sin, shall be 
changed and fashioned like unto His glori- 
ous body, according to the working of that 
mighty power that worketh in us by Jesus 
Christ. Here is a salvation, not for a sur- 
viving spirit, but for the whole man. The 
body is not a vile incasement of matter es- 
sentially gross and sinful, to be dishonored 
and gotten rid of, but a temple, to be purged 
of its defilement and become the dwelling 
place and instrument of the regenerated 
spirit of man and the permanent tabernacle 
of God. 

In these great central doctrines of the gos- 
pel we have a- true knowledge of God, peace 



42 £be invincible <3ospel. 

for our conscience, new strength for our 
moral responsibilities and an assured victory 
over death, by an immortality which reaches 
beyond the grave into the infinite future — 
not an absorption into the original God, not 
an extinction in eternal unconsciousness. 
This goal is not reached by a series of trans- 
migrations almost endless in extent, but at 
a bound, when the summons comes for us to 
depart and be with Christ, which is far 
better, and in the subsequent resurrection 
and translation of the body. (I. Thess. iii : 
15, 17. ) In the proclamation and defense of 
these doctrines, no matter in presence of 
what audience or in debate with no matter 
whom for antagonists, we are not ashamed 
of the gospel. 

4. We are not ashamed of the terms 
apon which this salvation is offered. It 
is unto all who believe. It is no aristo- 
cratic privilege which is reserved for the 
rich, the learned and the mighty. It indeed 
makes place for these, for they also are sin- 
ful men, but it extends all its unspeakable 



Cbe Jnvuncible <305pcL 43 

privileges to the poor, to the ignorant, to the 
outcast and to the most degraded. It pro- 
claims, u Whosoever will, let him come." 
Jesus Himself set the note of invitation 
when He said, "Come unto me all ye that 
labor are heavy laden and I will give you 
rest." And that the people to whom it was 
first preached might not deem themselves 
the exclusive beneficiaries of this great grace, 
Jesus straightway bade His disciples go and 
preach it into all the world and make dis- 
ciples from among all nations. This feature 
of universality was not an afterthought sug- 
gested by progress, but was proclaimed by 
prophets ages before He came, announced at 
the time of His birth, and incorporated in 
the original commission while as yet the dis- 
ciples were few and weak, with no earthly 
prospect of succeeding in their undertak- 
ing. The blood-stained banner of the cross 
planted in every nation under heavens after 
nineteen centuries ; the translation of the 
Bible into more than three hundred lan- 
guages and dialects, and its diffusion among 



44 



Zbe invincible Gospel. 



all nations arid people indicate the unquench- 
able spirit of Christ in longing love for 
men, proclaim not only its theoretical fitness 
to be the universal religion, but its practical 
adaptability to the needs of all men ; and 
already indicates the near triumph which 
awaits this God-given gospel of peace. We 
are therefore not ashamed of its true mission- 
ary character, and are taught to hail as 
brothers in Christ men of every race and 
kindred and tongue and people. 

5. We are not ashamed of the way in 
which it deals with the great problems lying 
just beyond the lines on which toe discuss 
individual salvation. The unity of God, 
and of the race, and the consequent brother- 
hood of man, as suggested in Paul's great 
speech on Mars Hill is a statement that 
causes us no blush of shame. And I may 
say that it is a teaching unique with Chris- 
tianity. It is not found in the Hindu or 
Budistic Bibles. The unknown God whom 
those too superstitious Athenians worshiped 
is our God, who "hath made of one blood 



Zhc invincible GoepeU 



45 



all nations of men for to dwell on all the 
face of the earth, and hath determined the 
times before appointed and the bounds of 
their habitation, that they shonld seek the 
Lord if haply they might feel after Him and 
find Him. though He be not far away from 
any one of us. For in Him we live and move 
and have our being." (Acts xvii: 23-29.) 
Christ, the Son of God and of man, in His 
incarnation, joined himself to the race by a 
clean dissent from Adam, so that His salva- 
tion has introduced brotherhood in the high- 
est and best sense into the unity of race 
relationship ; a brotherhood real in every 
respect, making every man equal, before 
God, with every other man, and placing 
woman where she belongs at the man's side, 
neither slave nor inferior, but companion, 
wife and helpmeet. While it thus equalizes 
all men before God, it recognizes those 
necessary and inevitable distinctions which 
must needs be among men in order to the 
development and consecration of the human 
family. In these human relations, all sane- 



46 Zbe invincible Gospel. 

tified by the indwelling Spirit of Christ, the 
believer gives due honor to all men, from the 
station, place and calling wherewith he is 
called. The master must remember that his 
servant is also the free man of Christ, and 
the servant must remember that in the serv- 
ice he renders to his earthly master he is 
honoring God. The wife is obedient to her 
husband, and the husband must reverence 
and love his wife as his own body. Children 
must obey their parents in the Lord, and 
the parent must see to it that he does not 
provoke his son to wrath by any unjust use 
of his parental power. The poor must dis- 
charge their duties to the rich patiently giv- 
ing due and honest labour for due and honest 
wages, and the rich must look to it that they 
do not keep back the labourers hire, nor 
grind the faces of the poor, for God is their 
avenger, and will exact it of them. The 
ruler is the magistrate appointed of God 
for the right government of the people, 
and the protection of society from the dep- 
redations of evil doers, and the Christian 



Zhc invincible (Sospel. 



man though a citizen of heaven, and because 
he is such, must honor the powers that be. 
To live peaceably with all men, do good as we 
have opportunity, and distribute out of our 
abundance to the needs of others less 
favoured and live as the sons of God on the 
earth. These principles make the basis of a 
society which in proportion as they are real- 
ized tends to dismiss most evils out of the 
world, and brings God and man into perfect 
fellowship. These great teachings of Chris- 
tianity as to God and man, and the relations 
between them, fit Christianity as no other to 
be the one universal religion, as God from 
whom it came is the one God of all men — 
Jesus Christ the one and only incarnating 
of God, revealing Him to man and bringing 
us back to Him. 

These are some of the many reasons why 
with the great Apostle, in the presence of this 
Parliament of Religions, we are emboldened 
to say we are not ashamed of the gospel of 
Christ. They are points upon which we 



48 Zbe invincible Gospel. 

challenge reply of other religions here 
present. 

Our gospel is a mighty power — not a force 
— but a power. Moreover, it is the power 
of God, not of man, not by man, not of 
organization, nor of material means, but 
the power of God sent down from heaven by 
the Holy Ghost, and made mighty in the 
hearts and consciences of men. And being 
the power of God, who so loved the world 
that He gave His only begotten Son that 
whosover believeth on Him might have ever- 
lasting life, it is at once a gracious and be- 
nevelent power ; a power which conquers by 
love, and wins at last by an indefinite and 
tender patience. Rome was the all-conquer- 
ing world-power subjugating the nations to 
her throne, crushing the people in her iron 
hand and grinding them to powder under 
her mailed foot, but not able to subdue 
either conscience or heart. Mighty as 
Rome was, she was but a physical force, 
which soon spent herself, and gave place to 
other organized forces of its kind. Paul 



£be Jnvuncible (SospeU 49 

saw the power of God through the gospel, 
gathering a kingdom which should know no 
geographical boundaries and be dependent 
upon no earthly Empire, but one in which 
. the King should sit enthroned in the heart 
of every subject; a kingdom, based on eternal 
righteousness and secured by the individual 
devotion of its subjects. He had no fear of 
failure. 

We have lived to see the triumph of the 
gospel over all world-powers, of the west, 
surviving all Empires, beholden to none, and 
independent of all. Alone, Paul might be, 
yet he was not ashamed of his cause. For- 
saken by all Asia which fell away from Christ 
after giving adherence to Him, still he wa 
not ashamed. Blushing and weeping over 
the shameful acts and deeds of not a few of 
the professed disciples of Christ, he was yet 
not ashamed of the gospel — did not fear its 
failure. A prisoner later on and condemned 
to die, he was not discouraged. * 

The Gospel has its power not from men, 
but from God, and so flowing onward from 



50 Zbe 3-nvlncible Gospel* 

its heaven] j 1 - source, it will purge and 
purify and heal even the banks through 
which it flowed. As a matter of fact 
Christianity is the only religion which has 
been able again and again to rise up and 
throw off false excrescences of doctrine and 
practice, to purge and purify itself from cor- 
ruptions which have attached themselves to 
it ; and thus self-purified, speed onward 
again, freed from these foul barnacles, to the 
accomplishment of its mission of love and 
salvation. Paul was not ashamed though 
confronted by many a hypocrite. These 
were but counterfeit coin, and no amount or 
number of them could by any means im- 
peach the true minting. He w r as not afraid 
of the future of the gospel though the world 
was large, the nations many and the peoples 
devoted to their inherited superstitions. He 
discounted its final success as we do. 

The heathen may rage and the people im- 
agine a vain thing; the kings of the earth 
and the rulers may take counsel together, 
and set themselves to break these heavenly 



Zbc invincible (Sospel* 51 

cords and cast off the bands of truth with 
which the gospel draws and holds men. 
But God hath uttered His decree and hath 
set His King on His holy hill of Zion. Who 
and what shall hinder the progress and final 
triumph of the gospel? Hitherto in its con- 
flict with Heathenism it has always prevailed, 
not by sword or by might of men, but by 
the power of love and patient care for the 
souls and bodies of men. Going forth in 
the hands and in the hearts of men and 
women who have not counted their lives dear 
to themselves, it has ever won its way. 
Where are the religions of Greece and Rome 
with their Pantheon full of gods ? They are 
but a historical memory. Like Dagon before 
the Ark, they have fallen before the Cross of 
Christ. Overwhelmed at times by vast 
hordes of barbarians, the Christian church 
has, through the gospel, converted its con- 
querors, and made Christians out of savages. 
Chained and fettered to the state in false 
and unholy alliance, the gospel has burst 
forth with new power and freedom in the 



52 



TLbc invincible <3ospeL 



free churches of Christ, and gone on its 
conquering and saving way. 

And now the stream of life issuing forth 
in the gospel is flooding back to the Orient 
whence it took its rise in this world, and 
will ere long heal all those wonderlands 
and bring salvation to the great and gentle 
people of the East who have ever been the 
most eager in their search after God. 



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